Erick, Oklahoma Erick, Oklahoma Location in Beckham County and the state of Oklahoma.
Location in Beckham County and the state of Oklahoma.
State Oklahoma Erick (/ r k/ eer-ik) is a town/city in Beckham County, Oklahoma, United States.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 1.0 square mile (2.6 km2), all of it land.
Erick is positioned just south of I-40 and is on the historic US Route 66 (which is signed as a company route from Interstate 40).
Erick is the second-closest Oklahoma settlement to the Texas border on US 66 or I-40 (tiny Texola, Oklahoma is at the border, seven miles to the west).
Climate data for Erick, Oklahoma As of the census of 2000, there were 1,023 citizens , 429 homeholds, and 272 families residing in the city.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 26.3% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 22.3% from 25 to 44, 22.7% from 45 to 64, and 22.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 22.5% of families and 25.7% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 39.4% of those under age 18 and 15.8% of those age 65 or over.
Erick was established in 1901 as an agricultural improve on what would turn into the edge of the Dust Bowl amid the Great Depression of the 1930s. It was positioned on the National Old Trails Road, one of the predecessors to the 1926 numbered US Highway system.
The town/city prospered briefly in the pre-war era when natural gas deposits were found in the area. On July 14, 1930 the Frederick (Maryland) Post presented "Reports received here by Sheriff W.K Mc - Lemore, Wheeler County, said negroes were driven out of Erick Oklahoma last evening and from Texola Oklahoma today by a mob seeking reprisal for the death of Mrs.
According to Erick town/city clerk Nyla Tennery, "I can remember plainly when the book came out my parents and other citizens who stayed here were just real upset.
That book gave all Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma citizens a shiftless, bad name, like that was the only kind of citizens who were here." Erick prospered in the post-war heyday of Route 66, with various roadside businesses catering to motorists.
The four lanes of Route 66 from Sayre, Oklahoma to Erick were the last Oklahoma section of US 66 to be bypassed by I-40, in 1975. Many of the initial Route 66 company are now gone or have been converted to other uses.
Efforts to put "Historic Route 66" back onto maps as a tourist attraction date to the late 1980s, with the first Route 66 Association established three years after the last section of initial highway (in Williams, Arizona) was bypassed by Interstate highway in 1984.
The 3000 square foot Roger Miller Museum opened at the corner of US 66 (Roger Miller Boulevard) and Oklahoma 30 (Sheb Wooley Avenue) in 2004 in a former 1929 cafe and drugstore building. The former City Meat Market building is now the Sandhills Curiosity Shop, one of the many Route 66 stops on Pixar's research trips for 2006 animated film Cars.
Erick was home to two of Country music's more idiosyncratic performers.
Roger Miller, nation superstar and author of "King of the Road," "Dang Me," "You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd," and many others, was born in Fort Worth, Texas, but interval up in Erick from the age of three (when asked by an interviewer where Erick was near, Miller wryly replied, "It's close to extinction.") Herbert Mayfield, one of the Mayfield Brothers of West Texas, was born in Erick but moved to Dimmitt, Texas, when he was ten years of age.
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Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture - Erick Municipalities and communities of Beckham County, Oklahoma, United States National Register of Historic Places in Beckham County, Oklahoma
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